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 horizon; where no change of proſpect nor variety of images, relieve the traveller from a ſenſe of toil and danger; of whirlwinds which in a moment may bury him in the ſand; and of thirſt which the wealthy have given half their poſſeſſions to allay? Do thoſe on whom hereditary diamonds ſparkle with unregarded luſtre, gain from the poſſeſſion what is loſt by the wretch who ſeeks them in the mine; who lives excluded from the common bounties of nature; to whom even the viciſſitude of day and night is not known; who ſighs in perpetual darkneſs, and whoſe life is one mournful alternative of inſenſibility and labour? If thoſe are not happy who poſſeſſ in proportion as thoſe are wretched who beſtow, how vain a dream is the life of man! And if there is indeed ſuch difference in the value of exiſtence, how ſhall we acquit of partiality, the hand by which this difference has been made?

"While my thoughts thus multiplied, and my heart burnt within me, I became ſenſible of a ſudden influence from above.--The ſtreets and the crouds of Mecca